Wildlife and Nature

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (632+ words) Hikers crossing the rocky slopes of Mount Timpanogos see nothing but loose rubble — no blue ice, no crevasses, no sign that anything frozen lies below. But beneath that ordinary-looking debris field, researchers have confirmed a glacier holding roughly 1.5 million cubic…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (630+ words) Beneath the rocky slopes of Mount Timpanogos lies far more ice than anyone walking across the surface might suspect. Researchers used gravity measurements to map the buried glacier in 3D and found it is about 83% ice, with enough frozen water to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (154+ words) Black bears are the only species in Utah and can be found across the state. Warm spring weather followed by several hard freezes, extreme heat and drought conditions have impacted their main diet of plants, including berries and acorns and…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (614+ words) SALT LAKE CITY — It's official: Utah's capital city received its lowest snowfall in at least 150 years during the 2025-2026 snow season, adding one last record to the rough winter the state experienced. Salt Lake City received 3.7 inches of snowfall over the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (158+ words) Salt Lake City’s foothills are prime rattlesnake country, and it’s got firefighters there on high alert as they continue to battle the Bonneville Fire. Crews have reported a handful of serpentine... ‘A big issue’: The Salt Lake City fire is…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (150+ words) The water of the Great Salt Lake itself is far too salty for snakes to live in comfortably. The real attraction lies around its edges. Freshwater streams feeding the lake create extensive marshes and... - 5 snake-filled waters in Utah: Great Salt…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago   (455+ words) WEBER COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) — Every year during the summer, Canadian geese molt and become flightless for around a month. This gives Utah biologists the perfect opportunity to catch them, band them, and continue building a conservation effort that began in 1965. Biologists…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (110+ words) Colder conditions start to relax by Tuesday, May 19, 2026, with highs bouncing back into the mid‑60s under mostly sunny skies. By Wednesday and through late week, temperatures climb into the 70s for a quick return to more typical spring weather. Keep the…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (454+ words) SALT LAKE CITY — A big fish — North America's largest freshwater fish, in fact — could find its way into a couple of small Utah lakes. The Utah Department of Wildlife Resources is proposing to introduce white sturgeon to Hobbs Reservoir in…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (108+ words) "It's very irritating, and it messes with their thermoregulation, so it costs them a lot more energy, and then it can lead to a lot more mortality to especially the calves that were born last may or sometimes the adults…...